NAV-VIR: an audio-tactile virtual environment to assist visually impaired people

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BibTeX citation:

@inproceedings{rivière2019,
  author = {Marc-Aurèle Rivière and Simon Gay and Katerine Romeo and
    Edwige Pissaloux and Michal Bujacz and Piotr Skulimowski and Pawel
    Strumillo},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {NAV-VIR: An Audio-Tactile Virtual Environment to Assist
    Visually Impaired People},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the International IEEE/EMBS Conference on
    Neural Engineering},
  pages = {1038-1041},
  date = {19-05-20},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8717086},
  doi = {10.1109/NER.2019.8717086},
  isbn = {978-1-5386-7921-0},
  langid = {en},
  abstract = {This paper introduces the NAV-VIR system, a multimodal
    virtual environment to assist visually impaired people in virtually
    discovering and exploring unknown areas from the safety of their
    home. The originality of NAV-VIR resides in (1) an optimized
    representation of the surrounding topography, the spatial gist,
    based on human spatial cognition models and the sensorimotor
    supplementation framework, and (2) a multimodal orientation-aware
    immersive virtual environment relying on two synergetic interfaces:
    an interactive force feedback tablet, the F2T, and an immersive
    HRTF-based 3D audio simulation relying on binaural recordings of
    real environments. This paper presents NAV-VIR functionalities and
    its preliminary evaluation through a simple shape and movement
    perception task.}
}

For attribution, please cite this work as:

Marc-Aurèle Rivière, Simon Gay, Katerine Romeo, Edwige Pissaloux, Michal Bujacz, Piotr Skulimowski, & Pawel Strumillo. (19 C.E.). NAV-VIR: an audio-tactile virtual environment to assist visually impaired people. Proceedings of the International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, 1038–1041. https://doi.org/10.1109/NER.2019.8717086